Roy is worthy to watch once for experiencing new style of storytelling and Arjun Rampal's flawless p !!

A flick that is made completely of dialogues and long pauses in between, Roy is a multilayered story that moves at its own pace and maintains the same right through its running length. Though one anticipated a thriller in the offering with some good suspense angle thrown in, the movie is more of a love story with heavy dose of drama set in. During the process, it ends up being way too niche for a select set of viewers who want their movies to be completely off the Bollywood manner of narration.

 

Debutant director Vikramjit Singh gives the movie an altogether new look. Right from setting the frame to the props to the background score to the shot taking to the editing pattern, the movie does boast of a newness element to it. Furthermore, with three very good looking people at his disposal, he makes sure to capture Arjun Rampal and Jacqueline Fernandez truly elegantly. With a consistent mood being maintained throughout the movie, at least Roy is not guilty of switching over its narrative style for commercial gains.

 

But, where Roy could have worked better was the encouragement of its core concept, which is making a 'film within a film'. Here, not only one would have anticipated more thrilling moments, even the ease and simplicity of scene setting could have played a little better for a larger segment of viewers. It takes a while to get a hang of how the four characters (with Jacqueline in a double role) interplay with each other. Also, at number of places the love story element as well as the motivations don't quite fit in. Furthermore, a few scenes are disorderly too while frequent pauses are way too long as well. Yes, one has to confess that Vikramjit was trying a new style but for a Hindi film format, it was always a risky preposition.

 

Amongst actors, the movie is an Arjun Rampal show all the way. In a mature and serious part, he does certainly well and is really the central protagonist of the film. His body language, voice and expressions are flawless for the part right till the end. Jacqueline comes up with a decent performance too and looks quite pretty as well. Astonishingly, Ranbir Kapoor just doesn't register an impact as his character is unclear, even though he has number of scenes in the movie and has a good presence.

 

The music brings in the relief element though the best song Tu Hai Ke Nahi comes towards the end. The rest do fit in well into the tale.

 

On the whole, it is worthy to watch once for experiencing new style of storytelling and Arjun Rampal’s flawless performance.